TEAM SPIRIT

Welcome to the PXFIRE Team Spirit Challenge! You've probably noticed already, that your team had to come up with a name and a theme in preparation for the competition. Well, here's where that theme comes into play. This challenge is a team challenge that reflects the three major parts of the spirit of competition. Each reflects the work of you team as whole as they contribute to your team's role in the PXFIRE event.

Please Note that this is separate from the points earned from the normal events, and that even if you don't win through points, you can still claim the title of "Most Spirited Team."

There are Three individual categories, each will be judged separately until the end of the event, where an overall winner will be decided as the team with the best Team Spirit.

PARTICIPATION
How active is your team? Are you participating as best as possible in the event? Is your team and the event encouraging you to try new things? Well, this part is straight forward and simple. Every week, I will inquire into the various event threads and into judges to count up participation in every team. You will be given points per person per event, with no limit to the number of points a person can earn. Bonus points will be given to people who participate in an event they did not the week prior. These points will be counted up for one overall result to be given out at the end of the 4 weeks.

5 points will be earned for your team for every event you participate in.
An additional 10 points will be given for trying a new event.

Non-attempts, or attempts without effort merely to get participation points, will disqualify you from any points you could have earned.


TEAM IDENTITY
This is where your Team's theme comes into play. How has it brought your team together? Inspired your team member's work outside your team thread? Are your team members seeking inspiration and aid from your team's theme and fellow members?

Every 2 Weeks a nominated team member will present a team "Spirit Portfolio" showcasing every thing your team has developed around your team's theme. This can include anything from art, slogans, and anthems to event works inspired by the team, roleplay both in and out of the roleplay event.

Your Portfolio must follow/include these things:
1: Your Portfolio should start off with a description of your team's theme, how it came to be, and how it's developed over the 2 weeks.
2: Any and all Works must come with a short description AND be labelled with the creator's name. If other people from thew team helped or inspired the work, they should be mentioned as well.
3: All works must be posted/created at least 2 days (the Thursday) before the portfolio is presented.
4: All works should be linked/shared with the rest of your team, I will be skimming through team threads to look for discussion/responses to works from before the portfolio's creation.
5: Remember this is a team event, while one person may be skilled enough to make tons of art and works, It will look better to have works from multiple team members.

The first Portfolio is due July 15, Please post them in This thread. A winner for the first 2 weeks will be announced the following day.


Sportsmanship
Most essential to any good competition is the spirit of gracious professionalism. Which is a fancy way of saying good sportsmanship. Every week I will inquire into Judges, as well as Team Leaders, for accounts of notably good sportsmanship, or notably bad sportsmanship. This will be done through PM as no one here should be in the business of publicly claiming someone to be a bad sport.

Individual Members and players are invited and encouraged to report actions of notably good/bad sportsmanship that happen outside of events as well. These reports should only be about members from opposite teams, however if a fellow team member has done something exceptionally good/bad, you may talk about them as well. This should also be done through PM. When reporting, please link (when possible) and give a full description. Please remember that a good sport does not hide the notably good actions of other teams in an attempt to keep them from winning, nor do they exaggerate notably bad sportsmanship to make them lose.

Important Note: Smack talking is not bad sportsmanship as long as it is kept at a reasonable, "Friendly Rivalry" level.

A simple point system will keep track of which team is doing the best, though they will be kept secret to avoid labeling any teams as "bad sports." A "Best Sport" winner will be announced every 2 weeks.